Producing Adults

Producing Adults

Just when you think you've grown up...everything changes

2004 · 102 min · ★ 5.2 · Drama, Comedy, Romance

Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.

Directed by Aleksi Salmenperä · Written by Pekko Pesonen

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